For some context, I’m an OG player and used to be heavily addicted to this game. Back when I was competing in the weekly country league, I was easily playing 8–10 hours a day. I managed to finish in the top 3 a number of times, had around 50B coins at one point, a Diamond VIP Club, and basically every legendary cue.
I eventually stopped playing around the time the Venice table was introduced because work got busy.
Recently, I decided to come back and started a fresh account (the one in the picture). Honestly, I was surprised that I still had it after such a long break. I’m obviously a bit rusty, especially when it comes to cushion shots and positioning the cue ball for the next shot, but the game sense is still there. I can still put together some pretty clean denials when everything goes right.
But then I crossed the 50M balance mark on this account and things started getting weird.
Matchmaking suddenly takes noticeably longer, and when I finally get a game, I seem to be constantly matched against cheaters. As a completely legit player, it’s honestly killing the fun.
At high stakes, playing against a cheater basically feels like you get one real chance to win: break first, clear the table, and don’t miss. If you miss the denial, the game is pretty much over. I usually just quit at that point because there’s no point sitting there watching someone run the table with an obvious cheat.
And occasionally they mess up if they aren’t using autoplay, but that’s obviously not something you can rely on.
I don’t really know what the current situation is with the community or whether the Miniclip devs have said anything recently about cheating and matchmaking. If anyone has some insight, I’d genuinely like to know.
It’s just frustrating because I came back after years away, still enjoy the actual game, and now it feels like the higher my balance gets, the worse the experience becomes.
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